Mr Hague said intervention into the report’s publication had been made “to seek assurance that ordinary procedures for clearance of UK material will be followed.”

Reprieve believes this to be a revealing change of tactic as the Foreign Office stance had so far been that “the release of the committee’s report is a matter for the United States.”

Ms Crider said: “The government protested that the United States would be angered if this kidnap case ever went to trial — and now we learn the British government is leaning on the US not to air Britain’s dirty laundry.

“It exposes their litigation stance as mere posturing.”

Late in 2011 Mr Belhaj started legal proceedings against the role of the British government in his rendition and torture at the hands of the Libyan regime.

3 thoughts on “British government censorship about torture”

Is not the British Government the most truthful church on the Planet? and MI6, are honorable in terms of our our guidance as high priests? they would not torture any? unless they were infidels and were disobedient to the Queen, and the nobility if British justice, and those who run the country that none know as a similar condition of God, who few know and is so rare as to be seen, it is as if He is almost nonexistent.